EcotoxicoMicYR 2025 Awarded Best Oral & Poster Presentations

✨ Best Oral Presentation Awards

Three prizes for Best Oral Presentation were awarded to:

Florian Chapeau Florian Chapeau (University of Toulouse 3) for his talk “Effects of graphene oxide on Xenopus laevis after multi-route exposure: an integrated host-microbiota approach.”
Titouan Dionet Titouan Dionet (University of Lorraine) for his talk “Spore-tacular automation: deep learning analysis for aquatic hyphomycete ecotoxicological assessment.”
Zahrasadat Alavikakhiki Zahrasadat Alavikakhiki (INRAE) for her talk “Acute toxicity evaluation of 12 pharmaceuticals on microbial functions of periphyton.”
Thanks to the Evertéa Foundation and the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR), the three winners will be invited to present their work at the next international congress of EcotoxicoMic 2026, in Greece in October 2026. For more information on the congress please visit the congress webpage.

🖼️ Best Poster Presentation Awards

The Best Poster Presentation Awards went to:

Catherine Chamorro Catherine Chamorro (University of Pau) for her poster “Effects and intracellular fate of cobalt (Co) in the freshwater microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.”
Emeline Delcros Emeline Delcros (University of Pau) for her poster “Elucidation of intracellular speciation and the effects of indium on the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.”
Ana Luisa Mejia Camacho Ana Luisa Mejia Camacho (University of Gothenburg) for her poster “Fitness Costs Limit MDR E. coli Invasion but Not Gene Dissemination in Freshwater Sediment.”